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BROCHANT DE See also:

VILLIERS, CHARLES PELHAM (1802-1898)

VILLIERS, See also:
ANDRE, JOHN (1751-178o)
ANDRE See also:
JEAN
JEAN FRANCCOIS See also:
MARIE
MARIE (1772-1840) , See also:

French mineralogist and geologist, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Villiers, near See also:

Nantes, on the 6th of See also:

AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1772. After studying at the Ecole Polytechnique, he was in 1794 the first See also:

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil admitted to the Ecole See also:

des Mines. In 1804 he was appointed See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

GEOLOGY (from Gr. yp7, the earth, and Abyor, science)

geology and See also:

MINERALOGY

mineralogy in the Ecole des Mines, which had been temporarily transferred to Pezay in See also:

Savoy, and he returned with the school to See also:

Paris in 1815. Later on he became inspector See also:

general of mines and a member of the See also:

Academy of Sciences. He investigated the transition strata of the Tarantaise, wrote on the position of the See also:

GRANITE (adapted from the Ital. granite, grained; Lat. granum, grain)

granite rocks of Mont See also:

Blanc, and on the See also:

lead minerals of See also:

DERBYSHIRE

Derbyshire and See also:

Cumberland. He was charged with the superintendence of the construction of the See also:

GEOLOGICAL

geological See also:

map of See also:

France, undertaken by his pupils Dufrenoy and See also:

ELIE

Elie de See also:

Beaumont. He died in Paris on the 16th of May 1840. His publications include Traite elementaire de mineralogie (2 vols., 1801—1802; 2nd ed., 18c8), and Traite abrege de cristallographie (Paris, 1818).

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